@reid –
If you’ll compare the themes of today to when we originally launched, you’ll see a massive difference in quality. We’ve upped our requirements about three times since we launched. As always, I’ll continue to talk with my reviewers about increasing the entrance requirements from time to time.

Once I read that every start of a new year you do a quality test to see if templates are still up to standards and remove the ones that don’t. I’m curious how many failed the test this last 2 years.

I guess that is just an insurance for future. Imagine if 10 years old themes on TF would have to stay just because absence of this lawyer back door It’s a good move.

Btw Theme Forest grows and this growth shouldnt necessary mean the same growth in the number of themes here. You see, the buyer is always one person and he just can’t browse through all those thousands of items just to filter like 50% of not-so-nice themes. It should always be about quality, not quantity. I could also design and code a wordpress theme in a week, but I am willing to take like 1-2 months, just to produce a better quality. Many new authors here see TF as easy money.. In other words, the growth of members should lead to the growth of quality.

My sales are in normal. But I had a little more than 24 hours without a single sale. That’s weird because I usually have around 7-10 sales per day and it’s quite stable.. This happened on Sunday 17th. Anyone with the similar situation?